Muharrem Horoz

Died on 3rd August after 236 Days on Death Fast

Muharrem Horoz, 28, a member of the banned Turkish Workers Communist Liberation Army/Marxist-Leninist or TKP-ML TIKKO, died at Izmit hospital, in northwest Turkey.

Muharrem Horoz was born in 1967 in Sivas. He graduated from Trakya University Mechanical Engineering Department. He was detained on July 1999 on the grounds that he was a member of "illegal" organization TKP/ML TIKKO.

After being heavily tortured he was sent to Umraniye Prison where he began the death fast on December 10. He was sent to Kandira F-Type Prison after "Back to Life" Operation (prison massacre in December 2000) and had continued death fast together with other prisoners. He was taken to Izmit State Hospital ten days ago. It is reported that Horoz refused the forced medical treatment four times and he lost his life on 3rd August 2000